Email Tenet and Tell Him to EXPLAIN!

[VaLabor]

Following the lead of another DUer, I've sent the following email to CIA Director Tenet:
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Dear Director Tenet:
I urge you to explain to the American people what you knew and what you told senior members of the Bush Administration about intelligence regarding the threat posed by Iraq, including its WMDs and the now-discredited claim that Iraq was acquiring uranium from Africa. The misinformation promulgated by the Bush Administration is a scandal of the highest order. Thus far, no one in the Administration has provided a straight answer about what they knew and when they knew it regarding the Iraq-Niger link. Instead, Bush's National Security Advisor Condileeza Rice has placed the responsibility for this deception on your doorstep, claiming that you had an opportunity to correct the information before it went into the State of the Union Address. Americans were misled on the threat Iraq posed - and were led to support a war based on false pretenses. The seriousness of this scandal cannot be overstated. Not only is our faith in the intelligence community at stake, but so is the right of American citizens to accurate information when making the gravest decision of all - whether to send our sons and daughters to war. You now have a responsibility to speak out. I urge you to explain what happened, to the fullest extent that the laws and interests of national security will allow. Thank you for your attention.

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Write to him! Tell him to explain himself!

I don't mind if you copy and paste with my letter. It's a very simple comment form:

https://comm.cia.gov/cgi/comment_form.cgi

[NYC]

1. If we demanded Tenet be tried for treason, would he defend himself?

Just a thought.

[Kahuna]

2. I sent the form asking that he tell the truth...

and to not fall on his sword for this undeserving administration.

I just saw on CNN that Tenet will be appearing before a senate committee next week. Here's hoping.... :toast:

[madmax]

3. I'm including that he not be the fall guy for this

worthless POS.

[Native]

4. My little note to Tenet

I am extremely concerned that our current administration is blaming you specifically for the Niger/State of the Union debacle. I have been following this issue assiduously, and it clearly appears that you and your organization are being asked to take the fall for this deliberate deception on the part of the executive branch of our government. I urge you to fight back with more than a simple "I never personally saw the speech." We need truth from someone in our government, before the American public loses all confidence and faith in our leaders. No one is above the law.

[sonias]

5. Too late Tenet already fell on his sword

Tenet Says CIA Erred in Iraq Allegations
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=1&u=/ap/20030711/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_tenet
Director George Tenet acknowledged Friday his agency wrongly allowed President Bush (news - web sites) to tell the American people that Iraq (news - web sites) was seeking nuclear material from Africa when analysts had doubts about the quality of the intelligence.

"These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," Tenet said in a statement released after Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), blamed the miscue on the CIA and members of Congress called for someone to be held accountable.

"This was a mistake," the director's statement said.
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Boy that was quick, he didn't even go down fighting. What a loser.
Tenet should go now.
(edited for typo in link)

Sonia

[Robbien]

6. Not too late.

He didn't say the statement was wrong, he just said he should not have let it stay there. He said technically the statement was right, it was according to British Intel. Of course the British Intel was wrong, but according to him that doesn't make the statement wrong. He doesn't offer to resign, he expects we will sit here and do nothing and all will blow over.

Keep on him, email your dissatification, copy your representatives on it. Email the media. Silence is the enemy here.